Bursting with full colour illustrations, a handy, complete guide to the Vikings, from the lives they led at home to their voyages of plunder across Europe and into America.
A fully illustrated study of the colourful regiments raised for France's late 19th-century colonial wars in Africa and Vietnam.
Supported by full-colour illustrations, this study explores in startling new detail the 'musket and tomahawk' forest warfare by which the French colonists and their allies battled to ensure the survival of 'New France'.
A remarkable three-part study that transformed the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War.
This first of a fascinating three-part study includes a general introduction and chronology, and chapters on Crown troops in North America; and begins a colony-by-colony review of militias and provincial units.
Fully illustrated with specially commissioned colour artwork and an array of rare archive images, this lively study examines a key French success at the height of the French and Indian War.
Alongside battlescene illustrations, maps and contemporary prints, René Chartrand examines the Anglo-Portuguese defeat of Napoleon's French forces at Bussaco.
This book provides an in-depth study of the construction and location of these fortifications, and examines what it was like to live and fight inside them, with the forts themselves illustrated by beautifully detailed artwork.
An illustrated history of the army that fought in the American War, following the royal orders that led to its vast reorganisation.
A fully illustrated exploration of the British fight against Junot's forces occupying Portugal.
The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington.
A detailed account of the uniforms of nearly 40 corps, based on impressive primary research.